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Growing Generous Souls reminds church leaders and inquiring individuals of their God-given identities; helps them experience the freedom of generous-hearted, gratitude-based living that Christ offers; and equips them to embrace a life lived in alignment with God's design. Challenging the ethic of scarcity, it invites people to adopt an ethic of enough and find a deeper sense of contentment. The book reorients stewardship from a church program to a way of life that nurtures grateful people. It identifies unbridled consumerism as a spiritual challenge. The book prompts readers to reconsider the use of money, relationships, and ways of caring for one another as spiritual issues that can instead be powerful tools. Vital, passionate generosity can become the key to ""soul making,"" as part of a sparkling, lifelong, whole-life adventure.

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. . . Generosity growing from the refreshed soul rather than the harried life. Dr. Schwarzentraub's thorough treatment points the way back for anyone tired of the hassled, consumptive, soul-emptying life, instead of the life that really is life. Dr. Mark L. Vincent, CCNL, EPC - Founder, Design Group International; author of A Christian View of Money, The Whys and Hows of Money Leadership, and Money Mania Here's a book that can help begin to change the culture from fundraising to embracing the connection of faith and money, generosity, as a core value of spiritual life. . . . Dr. Michael Reeves, author of Extraordinary Money; co-author of Faith and Money, and Extravagant Generosity: The Heart of Giving In this book you will find a tough-minded criticism of the tendency to do stewardship according to the rules of the regime of money, productivity, and profit but, at the same time, a hope-suffused confidence in the power of God's grace to shape us for living with money in the economy of grace. . . . Dr. M. Douglas Meeks, Cal Turner Chancellor Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies, Emeritus, Vanderbilt Divinity School; author of God the Economist

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Rev. Dr. Betsy Schwarzentraub is the author of Growing Generous Souls: Becoming Grace-Filled Stewards. She has been a teacher, writer and national consultant on stewardship and generosity, and is the author of Afire With God: Becoming Spirited Stewards, as well as the 2012-2016 United Methodist Guidelines book, Stewardship: Nurturing Generous Living. Out of years of pastoring congregations, she came to a deep passion for stewardship and sought to teach it on a wider canvas. She has served as the Director of Stewardship for the General Board of Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church, and worked directly with congregations as Director of Stewardship in California and Nevada for more than a decade. Betsy has conducted on-site consulting and website writing for foundations and churches in nine states across the U.S. and has served in various leadership capacities for the National Association of United Methodist Foundations and the Ecumenical Stewardship Center. She taught two years for the Christian Stewardship Association's Meyer Institute for Steward Leadership, receiving their Outstanding Stewardship Educator Award, and is Stewardship Consultant for the California-Nevada United Methodist Foundation. Betsy received her Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological School in San Anselmo and her Masters of Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. She and her husband are proud parents and grandparents, and love stewarding the land and animals at their home in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California.

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